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A man from the Ivory Coast gives his views on xenophobia during a meeting in Johannesburg, Friday, 9 July 2010 convened by the SA Council of Churches to discuss measures to combat xenophobic attacks after the World Cup. A hotline is expected to be launched on Monday to address xenophobic attacks, the council announced at the meeting.Picture: Werner Beukes/SAPA

An international police sting at a Pretoria petrol station has netted four men involved in the sale of a highly radioactive metal suspected to be destined for use in a dirty bomb (made of radioactive nuclear materials)pecialised tactical unit was carried out yesterday. A drty bomb combines radioactive material with conventional explosives. It is used to contaminate the area around the explosion and create terror.

Police recovered some Caesium-137 contained in a protective cover, but admitted they had yet to find a larger device, which was set to be sold on the black market for R45 million. CCTV footage shows how undercover members of the Hawks' organised crime unit stormed through a Sasol garage, opening fire on the suspects with semi-automatic weapons, sending terrified customers, motorists and petrol attendants fleeing.

Within moments of arresting the Mamelodi and Vanderbijlpark men, who are aged between 35 and 50, environmental officers and a field team of South African nuclear specialists sealed off the area as they gathered air samples and conducted tests on the radioactive material.

The lunchtime chaos brought an end to a lengthy police investigation involving Interpol agents around the world. Police said they began their investigation after infiltrating a criminal organisation, which has allegedly been trying to source the highly radioactive Caesium-137.

Sources said the amount recovered, although small, could have been used in building a dirty bomb. According to the Wikipedia website, a dirty bomb combines radioactive material with conventional explosives. It is used to contaminate the area around the explosion and create terror. A policeman said the source of the Caesium-137 was unknown and investigators were going all out to locate the larger device. "We don't know what these suspects' intentions were and we need to find the device quickly," he said.Nuclear Energy Corporation of SA spokeswoman, Chantal Janneker, confirmed the material was Caesium-137, and said there had been no contamination in the area.Hawks spokesman, Colonel Musa Zondi, said the four were arrested as they tried to sell the stolen material which was a sample of a device which was to be sold for R45 million.Zondi said the suspects would appear in the Pretoria Magistrate's Court on charges of theft, possession of a radioactive device and violating the Health Department's prohibition of handling this material in public. - Own Correspondent

MOSSEL BAY, Western Cape. July 1 2010 – A group of land-rights protestors started setting up shacks on a municipal land site along the N2 highway to Cape Town this week. A town councillor’s property was torched during the land occupation, during which the SAPS had to intervene in large numbers.

One interesting aspect noted by the observer of the land-occupation attempt, and who sent me these pictures, was that Somali refugees also were amongst the land-occupiers. With these pictures in hand, we have approached and are awaiting the Mossel Bay municipality ‘s official comment.

The news was also broadcast very briefly over the Afrikaans-language radio Radio Sonder Grense on June 29, 2010.

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Battle for land heats up: 2,000 foreign Africans apply for political asylum in SA EACH DAY

The Landless People Movement, the ‘Abahlali baseMjondolo” in the Western Cape, often also carries out such land-occupations of private and municipal land sites as the battle for South African land heats up, with an estimated 10million to 12million foreign Africans already in the country, and a daily two-thousand immigrants applying for political asylum at the Home Affairs’ seven offices countrywide. The Home Affairs department says the vast majority of these ‘asylum-seekers’ are ‘economic migrants and come from Zimbabwe, Botswana, Mozambique, Zambia, Tanzania, and Nigeria.

This is leading to xenophobic clashes between indigenous black South Africans and foreign African migrants. One June 25 some 1,000 Anti-Privatisation protestors marched through Sauer Street in downtown Johannesburg, shouting that ‘people from the outside" (foreigners) were buying up the government housing they had been on the waiting lists for years, for R10 000, "We found out that foreigners like Zimbabweans and Nigerians are buying RDP homes, but what about the South African people?" forum spokeswoman Sibongile Thusini told Sapa by telephone from the march."We have been waiting since 1992," she added."You know even the municipality has been sending threatening letters to grannies... that they can get thrown out."http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Protest-march-over-housing-20100625

3 Jun 2005 South African property owners and investors can take greater comfort in their property rights from the latest Constitutional Court judgment and comments from leading South Africans. And, says Anton de Leeuw, CEO of independent property educationists YDL, these will be further strengthened when Parliament changes the Prevention of Illegal Eviction from and Unlawful Occupation of Land Act.

Earlier this month, the Constitutional Court ordered government to pay damages to the owners of Modderklip farm in Gauteng because the government had not moved 40,000 squatters from the property.

"But as important was the process of confirmation of the owner's property rights," says de Leeuw. "The Johannesburg High Court evicted the tenants, but the Ekhuruleni/Boksburg Council did nothing. The case was taken back to court, the evictions were confirmed and the Council ordered to do something. The government took the case to the Supreme Court of Appeal and lost. Then they took it to the Constitutional Court and lost.

"This aspect of property rights in the constitution has thus been thoroughly tested and the outcome is that the rights of property owners have been confirmed."

De Leeuw also cites former deputy governor of the Reserve Bank and current professor of business studies at Gordon Institute of Business, Gill Marcus, who told delegates to last week's Sapoa conference: "We have a unique environment in the property sector that is very, very positive … with a framework of property rights rooted in constitutional law." Other property law and procedures – the deeds registry offices, for instance – make ownership one of the clearest and most secure in the world, De Leeuw says.

(EDITORIAL COMMENT: this much-praised Deeds Registry Law is being changed:

“Deeds Registries Amendment Bill and the Sectional Titles Amendment Bill”: 1. "The Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform hereby gives notice in terms of Rule 241 (1)(b) of the Rules of the National Assembly of Parliament that he intends to introduce the Deeds: Registries Amendment Bill (Gazette No 33316 – Notice 605)

De Leeuw was apparently unaware of these latest proposed changes to private-property rights when he said that: “despite its history in social activism, our government recognises the importance of property ownership. The Rental Housing Act, for example, recognises that government relies on private landlords to provide most rental accommodation in South Africa. The Act says clearly that the landlord is entitled to a reasonable return on investment, and is designed to protect the owner's interests as much as the tenant's. Government is also fully behind expanding the existing house market into the inner cities and former townships to give all property owners the opportunity to build their wealth through their homes. We are not without problems. The unexpected interpretation of the PIE Act is giving landlords, often in high rent areas, problems. Lack of education and property knowledge is a major cause of deteriorating conditions in some inner cities and townships. "But generally we should all agree with Gill Marcus that our property environment is very, very positive

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Please note that my site with the PAST SEVEN YEARS' information on atrocities against white South Africas, was hacked away. It used to be on https://www.censorbugbear.org. I apologize that this information is no longer available online. Anyone needing information about specific cases please email me at a.j.stuijt@knid.nl

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The term "genocide" was coined by legal scholar Raphael Lemkin in 1943, writing:

'Generally speaking, genocide does not necessarily mean the immediate destruction of a nation, except when accomplished by mass killings of all members of a nation. It is intended rather to signify a coordinated plan of different actionsaiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves.

The objectives of such a plan would be the disintegration of the political and social institutions, of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups, and the destruction of personal security, liberty, health, dignity and lives of the members of such groups... '